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December 1, 2002, Sunday

The New York Times won a record seven Pulitzer Prizes yesterday, including six for its news coverage of the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, its victims, its causes and its aftermath, all transformative events in the modern history of the United States....

THIS year's roster of best books contains five works of fiction and four of nonfiction, compared with last year's five of each. Choosing was easy. Nominating was not. Throughout the year there is some competition among editors to put books on the...

THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB A Story of Ideas in America By Louis Menand Illustrated. 546 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. None of the letters, diaries or other writings by members of the Metaphysical Club ever saw fit to mention the group's...

June 4, 2001, Monday

We at Failure Magazine -- where failure is not just a part of our business plan, it's at the core -- read Louis Menand's article on the subject (The Way We Live Now, Jan. 9) with more than casual interest. As a soon-to-begin online publication, we...